My Full Make.com Blueprint For Automating a Sheets → OpenAI → Ghost Content Pipeline
I wired my entire content pipeline into Make.com so a single row in Google Sheets turns into a published Ghost post. Here is the exact scenario, module by module.
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AI
Whoop + AI: How I Predict My Recovery Windows Before I Burn Out
I wired my Whoop data into an AI pipeline that predicts my recovery windows before I feel tired. It changed how I schedule training, deep work, and rest.
Ethics Of AI In Frontend: Who Owns Your UI Components?
I have AI generate UI components almost every day now, but I do not trust any of them by default. This is how I think about responsibility and ethics when that code hits production.
Building A Personal Longevity Dashboard With bypass-longevity
How I wired the bypass-longevity AI lifespan predictor into my personal health dashboard, what I actually track, and how I keep it privacy-first and useful.
Biohacking With Whoop Data And AI: How I Actually Fixed My Circadian Rhythm
I stopped chasing Whoop recovery scores and started using AI to interrogate my sleep data. That is when my circadian rhythm finally started to make sense.
Productivity Hacking With AI: How I Let a Model Reorder My To‑Do List
I stopped manually grooming my to-do list and let a model reorder it using my own data. Here is how that actually works day to day, and what broke.
CSS
Why I Still Hand‑Code Every Hover State
I still hand-code every hover state instead of trusting component libraries. Not because I like pain, but because that tiny interaction layer decides how the site actually feels.
The CSS Specificity Bug That Wasted 3 Hours And Needed 1 Line
A real CSS specificity war story from a client project: three hours of confusion, one stubborn layout bug, and a single-line fix that solved it.
CSS Variables in the Age of AI: Letting Models Design Your Themes
I stopped hand-tuning every color token and let AI generate theme palettes on top of CSS variables. The result: faster theming, fewer regressions, and weirder experiments.
CSS Flexbox For Adaptive Fitness Dashboards That Don’t Suck On Mobile
How I use Flexbox to keep a workout dashboard readable when the data gets weird and the layout has to adapt on the fly. Practical patterns from a real fitness tracking UI.
Using CSS Variables To Theme Biohacking Dashboards Without Losing Your Mind
How I use CSS variables to keep my HRV, sleep, and training dashboards visually consistent, even when the tools do everything in their power to look different.
Animating Sleep Cycle Data With CSS: Turning Rest Into Motion
I turned boring sleep tracking exports into an animated CSS timeline that makes light, deep and REM stages instantly readable. No chart library, just HTML, CSS, and some carefully timed motion.
Frontend
My Full Make.com Blueprint For Automating a Sheets → OpenAI → Ghost Content Pipeline
I wired my entire content pipeline into Make.com so a single row in Google Sheets turns into a published Ghost post. Here is the exact scenario, module by module.
Lazy Loading Images Almost Tanked My Core Web Vitals
I broke my own Core Web Vitals by being clever with lazy loading. Here is the ugly LCP data, what actually fixed it, and the image loading rules I use now.
The Accessibility Audit That Slapped Me Awake
An external accessibility audit tore apart a client site I was proud of. Here is what they caught that I completely missed, and how it changed my workflow.
Why I Still Test In Safari First (And The Bugs It Catches Early)
I test new frontend work in Safari first. It hurts early, but it saves me from bugs Chrome happily hides until production.
View Transitions API: Useful, But Only For This One Thing (So Far)
After one real project with the View Transitions API, I stopped believing the conference demos. It is not magic, but it is surprisingly good for one very specific use case.
The Schema.org Markup Every Client Site Should Ship With
The structured data I ship on almost every client project fits on a single page. This is the JSON-LD I actually deploy, not theory.
Productivity
The Most Productive 15 Minutes Of My Day: Folding Laundry At Night
My most useful daily habit is not an app, a supplement, or a new framework. It is folding laundry at night, on purpose, every single day.
Killing CalendarBridge and RankPill: An Honest Audit of My Setapp Stack
I killed CalendarBridge and RankPill, then audited my entire Setapp stack. This is how I trimmed the bloat without losing any real capability.
Running Family Logistics Like a Sprint Board in a WhatsApp Group
My partner and I run family logistics like a sprint, but our board lives in WhatsApp. No fancy app, no Notion setup. Just one group called “Fam” with a few simple rules.
My Sunday Planning Ritual: Why I Plan On Paper Instead Of Apps
My entire week lives or dies on a 30–40 minute Sunday planning ritual done on paper. The friction is exactly why it works.
Productivity Hacking With AI: How I Let a Model Reorder My To‑Do List
I stopped manually grooming my to-do list and let a model reorder it using my own data. Here is how that actually works day to day, and what broke.
How I Actually Time Block a Week Without Burning Out
I tried to engineer the perfect calendar. Then I watched it get wrecked by reality every single week. This is the version of time blocking that actually survives contact.
Biohacking
Six Months With SecondsPro: The Kettlebell Timer That Finally Stuck
I used Ladder for kettlebell training and still skipped workouts. SecondsPro fixed that. This is what Ladder got wrong and why this ugly little timer app actually stuck.
Whoop + AI: How I Predict My Recovery Windows Before I Burn Out
I wired my Whoop data into an AI pipeline that predicts my recovery windows before I feel tired. It changed how I schedule training, deep work, and rest.
Building A Personal Longevity Dashboard With bypass-longevity
How I wired the bypass-longevity AI lifespan predictor into my personal health dashboard, what I actually track, and how I keep it privacy-first and useful.
Biohacking With Whoop Data And AI: How I Actually Fixed My Circadian Rhythm
I stopped chasing Whoop recovery scores and started using AI to interrogate my sleep data. That is when my circadian rhythm finally started to make sense.
Whoop Data Meets AI: Forecasting My Best Training Days
I used Whoop data plus a simple AI workflow to predict when I am most likely to hit great training sessions. The model is rough, opinionated, and already beating my gut feeling.
Biohacking Neural Interfaces With Sovereign AI Control Loops
How I think about combining brain-computer interfaces with sovereign AI agents for tighter control, safer feedback loops, and real-world biohacking use. Less sci-fi, more wiring diagrams.
Tools
The Schema.org Markup Every Client Site Should Ship With
The structured data I ship on almost every client project fits on a single page. This is the JSON-LD I actually deploy, not theory.
Shooting With Restraint: iPhone, Lightroom, And A Component Mindset
Photography got way better for me when I dropped the gear chase and treated images like components in a system: shot on an iPhone, finished in Lightroom, used on the web.
Killing CalendarBridge and RankPill: An Honest Audit of My Setapp Stack
I killed CalendarBridge and RankPill, then audited my entire Setapp stack. This is how I trimmed the bloat without losing any real capability.
The Tower Workflow That Keeps My Mac Studio And MacBook Air Perfectly In Sync
How I keep a Mac Studio and a MacBook Air in sync using Tower, Git and a few strict rules, so I can jump between desk and couch without merge hell.
Mac Studio As My Daily AI Workhorse (And How I Actually Use The GPU)
How I use a Mac Studio as a daily AI development box, where Apple Silicon shines for AI workloads, and how to avoid the usual GPU bottlenecks.
Notion vs Obsidian for a Solo Developer: What I Actually Use
After 2 years using Notion and Obsidian side by side, I stopped pretending they compete. Here is what I genuinely use each one for as a solo developer.
Build in Public
20 Years of richardlemon.com – A Website Grows Up
What the Wayback Machine remembers about you – and what it says about where you're going.
Lazy Loading Images Almost Tanked My Core Web Vitals
I broke my own Core Web Vitals by being clever with lazy loading. Here is the ugly LCP data, what actually fixed it, and the image loading rules I use now.
The Accessibility Audit That Slapped Me Awake
An external accessibility audit tore apart a client site I was proud of. Here is what they caught that I completely missed, and how it changed my workflow.
The Git hygiene workflow keeping ideebv-2026 lean
How I keep the ideebv-2026 repo lean using git filter-repo, strict ignores, and backup pruning. Real commands, no theory.
The CSS Specificity Bug That Wasted 3 Hours And Needed 1 Line
A real CSS specificity war story from a client project: three hours of confusion, one stubborn layout bug, and a single-line fix that solved it.
Why I Rebuilt My Portfolio Navigation From Scratch (Twice)
I thought my portfolio nav was smart. Then I used it on an actual phone. This is what broke, what I rebuilt, and what I will never ship again without testing.
Thoughts
20 Years of richardlemon.com – A Website Grows Up
What the Wayback Machine remembers about you – and what it says about where you're going.
A New Chapter: Biohacking My Way to a Healthier Me
As the year ends, I’m excited to share the beginning of my weight loss journey—a journey I’m
Coaching Positions: How I Read 12-Year-Olds Before They Know Themselves
Try-out season is where 12-year-olds tell you who they are without using words. You just need to know where to look and how to listen.
Running Family Logistics Like a Sprint Board in a WhatsApp Group
My partner and I run family logistics like a sprint, but our board lives in WhatsApp. No fancy app, no Notion setup. Just one group called “Fam” with a few simple rules.
Sovereign AI for Healthcare Records: Patient-First, Not Platform-First
I wanted to see if sovereign AI plus decentralized records could give patients actual control over their medical data, not just another privacy checkbox. This is the architecture I ended up sketching out.
The Mental Load After A Youth Baseball Loss (And How I Don’t Bring It Home)
Youth coaching looks light and fun from the fence. After a loss, it is not. This is how I decompress, process, and handle the parent dynamic without burning out.